Word: angst
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...having never staged a Games, Sydney was, like all the other first-time hosts, wondering where its visitors were on the eve of the big cauldron-lighting. Hotel rooms were vacant, seats were unused at the opera, street prices were dropping for ping-pong prelims, angst was rising. "Some now claim we never should've done it," said the clerk at Gowings as he brushed my new Akubra bushman's hat. (You'll like it, honey. Really.) "Bloody 'ell," he said, "the sports 'aven't even begun! Look around; it's already been great for the country. Those...
Most of us have little problem with aristocracy, benevolent or otherwise. Many of you will spend next year in the corporate and academic worlds, both aristocracies of varying degrees. Do not, in your spirals up or down towards money or fame or angst, forget the importance of the ritual gesture...
...Married couples at all middle-income levels who are caring for children and aging parents. They want a President who solves problems and offers a cure for their "prosperity angst." When they aren't worrying about bad things happening in their children's schools, they're fretting about their parents' health-care costs. They like Bush's education record as well as his plan to use vouchers to rescue children from failing schools, and his "prosperity with a purpose" pitch has been hitting home with them too. But when he got lost in the thickets of tax-cut policy, they...
...Sandwich Generation Married couples at all middle-income levels who are caring for children and aging parents. They want a president who solves problems and offers a cure for their "prosperity angst." When they aren't worrying about bad things happening in their children's schools, they're fretting about their parents' health-care costs. They like Bush's education record as well as his plan to use vouchers to rescue children from failing schools, and his "prosperity with a purpose" pitch has been hitting home with them too. But when he got lost in the thickets...
...tale is a typically dispiriting take on American Jewish dysfunction from Samuel G. Freedman's new book Jew vs. Jew (Simon & Schuster; 384 pages; $26). But to the initiated, its message is more specific: the angst of belonging to the group so often stuck in the middle of such rifts. Gottesman is a Modern Orthodox Jew. Just like Joe Lieberman...